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Not anymore classless than forcing him and his staff and team to hand over home court advantage after earning it the hard way. The university told him they don’t give a shit. So why should he? Rick

I would like to thank everyone for this forum to talk about UNT sports! I am a UNT alumni and got interested in UNT athletics when my youngest son started playing sports. Neither of my sons will watch games on TV so we started making it out to games. Basketball games are way more accessible than football so it has turned out to be an excellent family activity. They are both kinda shy, but when they bring their friends or cousins to the game they get loud! I am addicted now and have found there is no one out there that I can talk Mean Green Basketball with! No one cares! Baylor, Tech, A&M, UT or even TCU on the other hand? I don't really care about them. 😂 So I sincerely that you all!!! GMG

Brought my baby boy up here to watch every game today. Memphis is easily 90% of the crowd for this game against Wichita State, but the Shockers are up 20-10 at the 14:35 mark.

Awful take. I don’t know about you but I want to win this tournament again. Ross coaching gives us the best chance to do that. So many emotional reactions to all this. We’re gonna be fine.

What an absolute failure on the AD’s part. Don’t want to hear any excuses. Figure it out. So freaking embarrassing how unserious this athletic department is. Let me go ahead and respond for anyone that’s going to reply with any defense EXCUSE. I don’t hear a word you’re saying.

Just cause Elon is bringing that term back doesn't mean we should embrace it. Many on here have kids with special needs... be a bit more sensitive and intelligent. When you say retarded I can only think that you suffer from that as well.

If WVU is paying him like three times what we did, I doubt the luncheon fiasco had a whole lot to do with this.

The simple reason is incompetence combined with indifference and apathy along with a little bit of disdain.

A very North Texas thing to do 😆. Time for UNT to realize it is a basketball school. Build a legit basketball arena and become an elite mid major.

No disrespect to Atin because I love watching him play and I’m glad he’s wearing green and black, but surely our HOF standards aren’t so low that a guy can come here and be very good (but not great) his senior year and get in

I hope he doesn't forget to take his receipts with him.

I don't know look it up. You're the one complaining.

I know we're all upset about losing Hodge. Baring any unexpected promotions, it's effectively the end of the gritty defensive era we've grown to love over almost a decade. A few years ago, I'd read posts on the football forum saying that if we could become P5 launch pad for up and coming headcoaches, we'd be in a great position for continued success. If only we could have a couple head coaches be very successful and get plucked away, we could become known as a place coaches come to make a name for themselves and North Texas would become a desirable job as a place to jumpstart careers instead of burying them. With the news that Hodge is leaving to WVU, we've now had back-to-back head coaches hired away by Big 12 schools in the span of 3 years. When's the last time that's happened here? I can promise you, agents of coaches at various low and mid-majors are contacting their clients and pointing to the school in Denton, America as the place to be. The same goes for assistant coaches at high-majors/P5 who want to become a head coach. Want that big-time job? Come to UNT. The portal helps us even more now that most coaches know they're mostly starting over next season. Might as well start over at the BIG 12 head coach mill. We all know coaches come and go. We all prefer they be hired away rather than fired. Today is bittersweet but the future still looks bright. There will be no shortage of qualified applicants looking to wear green in the AAC as the leader of the Mean Green next season.

I would rather win the NIT before he is gone.

Plan ahead. They did it exactly like you have described because they are academia and have never run a real business. Kind of like career politicians trying to meet a budget.

Bless his heart. His knowledge and skill in media sports will be felt for generations. He was a wonderful man and was absolutely sweet and kind to everyone he met. He loved North Texas so very much. Those of us who had him in our lives, if even for a short time were blessed to have done so. Prayers for him and his family. Rick

Biggest game in the History of Western Civilization.

The year we won the CUSA Tournament and defeated Purdue, we lost our regular season finale. Cool the breaks on jumping out a window or say we have no shot in Fort Worth. March Madness is called March Madness for a reason.

Orange seats would go a long way toward brightening up the place.

Breaking news! Coach in his 5th season and 2 NCAA tournament appearances makes more than coach in his 2nd season and no tournament appearances. Y'all can't actually be surprised Kennedy makes more, right?

Was he eating fajitas when he wrote this?

Super Pit misses out on a national televised game on ESPN….a very intense game All because they didn’t want to move folding chairs and sweep up grated cheese off the floor

Took every literal punch, one sided calls in the final minutes and a luncheon but pulled out the win!

This is on Mosley's boss.

kid's

I’m just glad nobody on this thread panicked or knee jerked .

Posting this since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on this forum. A fellow college basketball fan I know told me he heard a story on KERA 90.1 on Friday about UNT men's and women's basketball. I looked it up, and it was a short interview with Brett Vito. Not often that you hear about our basketball teams on KERA radio. Nice publicity! https://www.keranews.org/sports/2025-03-07/unt-built-what-might-be-the-best-overall-basketball-program-in-the-aac-heres-how

When did we get so high and mighty that an NIT bid is beneath us? Post season basketball builds the brand name and culture. It helps in recruiting players in the portal. Guys want to come play in a winning program.

You cannot tell me that this fiasco with the luncheon did not impact Ross deserting us for WVA! Head should absolutely roll on this. This ABSOLUTELY impacted our ability to renew Ross. Only at UNT. Only at UNT would this travesty happen.

I think the advantage we have, if there is any advantage at all, is access to a mass population and the opportunity to play at home? And that’s what we have to offer high school kids, mostly. Which is why I have always felt we have a really good chance to build a dominant softball team due to access to phenomenal local talent, and the limited local softball schools we compete against for recruits(2)? But of course, in this era of professional college sports the HS kid is getting crapped on, especially in basketball. But any advantage we may gain we piss away every time we hire yet another apathetic employee making the decisions for the entire university. So now I’ve chosen to spend my free time and hard earned money…. ….in my front yard, working on the Dirty Blond and travel. Rick

You tell these coaches to bring in a winning culture and to build the fanbase....and then you do amateur things like this.

Hot sports opinion... I am thoroughly enjoying the second half of this game more that the first

This team was picked to finish 7th and lost 5 really good players in the portal. Coming into the season, if someone would have predicted that we would go 23-7 and finish 2nd in the conference, we would have said they were crazy. This team has flaws but has earned the right to keep playing regardless of the outcome in Ft. Worth. I feel like we have a good chance to win the AAC tournament but will still be proud of a great season and won't be mad about an NIT bid. Continue to build the brand name. Get to Dickies Arena Friday and GMG!

My wife did not seem as excited about seven home games as I was. I then explained that if you break down the ticket price per game, it was an absolute bargain, which led to her asking how much they cost. I then faked a medical emergency not to answer the question. 😁

Imagine what 7k of fans attending games every night would do for the Men's program and 3 to 4k for the Women's program would do? The Pit would be a hugely hostile place for visiting teams to play. A Fan can only dream.

You are in Daniyal, brother. GMG

Mosley- Do NOT hire Golding!!

He lost me at North Texas University...

Could have had a huge crowd for a NATIONALLY televised game on ESPN. Not ESPN+ or ESPNU or ESPN2 but the actual ESPN leading straight into Sportscenter. I have never been so disappointed in my school.

He didn’t get it off in time* *I’m 99% confident in this statement, but will admit that the shaggy haircut in the middle of my screen may have obscured my view a little

People laugh about the basketball school stuff but what could we pay our basketball coaches if we lowered the underperforming football salary pool? For those against lowering the football salary pool in favor of basketball, consider this: how upset would you be if Eric Morris was hired away today and how does that compare to the potential of losing Hodge?

This is one of those times when the entire University should have come together to ensure that these games stayed in Denton. There is no excuse for moving these games.

Light the Grill. Final from the Fajita Pit: UNT 78 UTA 67 Ladies advance to face the Troy Lady Trojans in “Super” 16 of WNIT.

This is on the President and BOR. 1. Why schedule a staff appreciation in the SP? Was Jerry World unavailable? 2. At most, you need half the floor. Wall off one half and cover the other. 3. Dinner, if it must be there, is over at 1:30pm. That leaves you 2 1/2 to 3 hours to clear half the floor and reset it. Easily done. 4. I applaud UNT for having this event for staff, but let’s not be so myopic that the university doesn’t understand the ability to host a quarterfinal that will put eyes on our university, something all the staff combined can’t do. 5. Put forth the effort. Show that it matters. All hands on deck to make it happen. 6. Think about the revenue being left on the table for the school and city. Let’s see Denton step up and help make this happen. If it’s a manpower issue, send city workers to help. Prove there is a university/city partnership and make it happen. 7. If they want it to happen, it will. If it doesn’t happen, I want to hear an explanation from our new president. Not some prepared statement b.s., but a stand at a podium, from the horse’s mouth, allowing questions at the end comment.

I’ve got some terrible news for you. There are MANY who would substitute Saint Francis and Alabama St. with North Texas, etc. If you want the committee to get “the best 68 teams in,” get ready for a tournament full of P4’s. Not a tournament I care to watch. The opening weekend with all of the smaller schools is my favorite part of the tournament.

Wow. We've really come a long way. We're actually bemoaning playing in NIT 4 years in a row now??

Congrats to UAB. They played a really solid game today. It’s not a coincidence that the teams playing in the championship game have the 2 best players in the league on their teams in Lendenborg and Haggerty. Yax was the best player on the floor today and it really showed. UAB had an answer for every UNT push and potential momentum shift. They looked like defending AAC Champions today. UNT is a good team but not a great team. Hard playing, defensive minded, and gritty. But not the most talented. The reality is that we lost to the NCAA Tournament calibre opponents we faced this year (Memphis, UAB twice, Utah State, High Point, McNeese) competitively, but still lost them. Last comment: I’m really jealous of the Memphis traveling support. I realize we’re still building and don’t have their historical pedigree/success, but it’s clear we still have a lot of work to do to get up on their level.

In that timeline, I don't defect from UNT and am known as Eagle King where I constantly antagonize Coogfans.